He obtained his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1998, at the age of 24. He did two years of post-graduate training in anesthesiology, choosing to complete his training in family medicine to allow him to combine more of the things he loved about medicine. These include hands-on procedures, acute care medicine, diagnostic problem-solving, whole-person care and mind-body medicine, exercise and nutrition, mindfulness and wellness, peak performance and human potential. He worked as a staff ER physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, the North York General Hospital and other teaching hospitals in Toronto, and also served as a locum ER physician in several rural and remote hospitals in Canada. During the SARS epidemic of 2003, he was a front-line physician with the CDC and Toronto Public Health at the Sunnybrook Hospital. His experience with SARS led him to seek a deeper understanding of the innate healing power of the body. He spent two years travelling the world, studying traditional medicine and working with indigenous healers in South America, Europe and Asia. This led to his integrative practice in Ottawa, Canada, where he has led a multidisciplinary team treating severe chronic pain for almost two decades. During this time, he developed skills and expertise in many therapies and disciplines, incorporating acupuncture, manual medicine, natural health products, kinesiology, and many other integrative tools that have improved his patient outcomes. His research includes evidence-based reviews, clinical practice guidelines and an NIH-funded clinical trial. He has taught medical students and residents, has been an invited lecturer at international conferences, and served as Chair of the Medical Interest Group for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the Ontario Medical Association. In 2010, Dr Nahas was introduced to Neural Therapy, which uses local anaesthetic injections to target areas of prior trauma, infection or other tissue injury. This led to a profound insight about these lesions, which are called interference fields. These hidden lesions, where connective tissue and sensitised nerves generate tension, stress and inflammation, can affect the body as a whole in unexpected ways. While they are recognized by many of the healing systems of the world, they remain completely unknown to medicine. Dr Nahas uses a whole-person approach to deliver targeted, personalised interventional treatment to treat nerves and fascia, body and mind. His unique palpation skills allow him to precisely target connective tissue lesions that cause peripheral nerve entrapment in long chains of fascia. He uses dextrose and local anaesthetic injections in combination with The Seekers Method, an assisted stretching technique that combines movement and touch, breath and awareness, to find and release these restrictions in tissue, which he refers to as blockages. His professional mission is to accelerate the transition to blockage-based care as a historic advance in medicine. He is developing workshops and videos to help patients and providers learn to use his approach to improve outcomes. His elective experiences were guided by an interest in global health that continues to this day. This included clinical rotations in the trauma unit of the Johannesburg General Hospital in South Africa, research on child mortality in the neurosurgery department of the Abu El Reesh paediatric hospital in Cairo, Egypt, and a public health in Jerusalem, Israel, a medical partnership for peace between the Hadassah Medical Center and Al Quds University. He has contributed to research projects and mission trips in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica. These principles continue to guide his career, which includes his clinical practice in interventional pain and regenerative medicine with his work as the founder of the Seekers Wellness Group, which is developing and managing a portfolio of products and services to support people and providers who identify as Seekers. These include a waterfall wellness property in Costa Rica, a mobile platform for crowdsourcing evidence at the point of care, and other tools that contribute to this mission. Your treatment with Dr Nahas will combine his unique procedural skills with a wide range of innovative solutions, using a personalised approach for each individual patient to deliver superior results.
